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Shaped by Fire · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 8 OF 53
Groove E -- Chorus
47 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART S
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECACSAI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shaped by Fire on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-42, toms through bars 43-46 and snare through bars 47-67, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 10 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Shaped by Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-76 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shaped by Fire?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Shaped by Fire hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shaped by Fire?

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED